I Learn My Phonics Grade 2 - Lesson Plan Unit 3

WEEK 5 – GRADE 2 – LETTER P (35 minutes) PERIOD 9 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students can be able to:
Recognize and pronounce the letter Pp and its sound correctly
Understand, recognize and say the three Pp words
Write the letter Pp
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 3 - Lesson 1
Letter Pp
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
pen, panda, parrot
Sight words
please
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.10 & 11
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up (5 mins)
Greet students
Put up the phonics cards from the previous unit (olive, orange, omelette, octopus) on the board.
Write the first and last letter below each phonics card.
Ask individual students to come to the board and complete the words.
Ask the rest of the class for verification.
Presentation & Practice
Listen, point and repeat. Colour (Track 14): Introduction of letter P, its sound and how to pronounce the words beginning with Pp (7 mins)
Use a card with letter Pp (or write on board the letter Pp) to introduce to the students the new lesson.
Instruct students how to pronounce the letter name and the letter sound by saying: “This is the letter P /pi:/. The letter P says /p/.”
Repeat several times and check students’ pronunciation (letter P /pi:/ and its sound /p/)
Use the phonics cards with pen, panda, and parrot, read the words out loud and have students repeat.
Use gestures to help students to understand the meanings of the three words.
Stick the cards on board and have students repeat the words chorally several times (in the correct order and then in any order).
Call some students to say the words out loud and correct their mistakes (if any)
Ask the students to open their books and colour in the letters
Activity: Sound and Word Game (4 mins)
Divide the class into two teams, team A and team B.
Put one of the phonics cards (e.g: pen) on the board.
Ask a student from Team A to identify the sound (one point), the picture (one point) or both (two points).
Continue with a student from Team B.
Write the points for each team on the board.
Give feedback
Listen and point. Choose. (Track 15): Read the words with “Please!” (6 mins)
Have students look at the book and listen to the words: a pen, a panda, a parrot
Have students listen and repeat the words for several times
Ask the students to look at the pairs of pictures on the side.
Choose the correct one for each corresponding item in the picture.
Go around the classroom asking the students to name the item they are matching.
Activity: Speed Race Game (5 mins)
Put three chairs in front of the board.
Divide the class into 3 teams; call one student of each team to stand up.
Put a phonics card on each chair.
Read one of the three words out loud (e.g. a panda), students must try to be the first to sit on the chair with the corresponding phonics card.
The student who sits on the chair first will get 1 point for his/her team.
Give feedback
 Chant and show! (Track 16) (5 mins)
Use the phonics cards on the board and have students sing the chant with pen. Do the same with panda and parrot.
The whole class sings the whole chant. 
Do the chant again using gestures for each word. 
Give feedback
Production (3 mins)
Activity 1: Letter Writing Race Game
Ask the students to open their notebooks.
Give the students 2 minutes to write as many Pp’s as they can.
The winner is the student who has written the most.
WEEK 5 – GRADE 2 – LETTER P (35 minutes) PERIOD 10 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Recognize and say the three Pp words correctly 
Do the corresponding actions
Read the story
Sing letter Pp song
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 3 - Lesson 2
Letter Pp
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
pen, panda, parrot
Sight words
can, I, have, a, please, thank, you
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.12
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up (4 mins)
Greet students
Activity: What is it?
Hold up the phonics cards, one at a time.
Partly hidden by a sheet of paper.
Slowly reveal the phonics card.
The students try to guess what the phonics card is.
Give feedback
Presentation & Practice
Lead-in Activity: Touching Game (5 mins)
Put the 3 phonics cards on the board in this order: pen, panda, parrot.
Divide the class into 2 teams; call one student of each team to stand 1m from the board
Read one of the three words out loud (e.g. a pen), students must run to tap the card of that word.
Student who taps the correct card first will get 1 point for his/her team.
Call 4-6 students per team to the board if possible
Give feedback
4. Listen. Read along (Track 17) (8 mins)
Encourage the students to point to the picture of the word that the teacher says.
Play the CD. Have the students listen to the story once.
Play the CD again. The students listen and point to the pictures of the key words when they hear them in the story
Read the story. The students follow their books.
Teacher reads the printed words then let the students look at the pictures and say the words.
Ask students work in pairs. One reads while the other checks, then they change roles. Or one reads the printed words while the other looks at the pictures and says the words.
Activity: Say the Sight Words (3 mins)
Point to and say the sight words: can, I, have, a, please, thank, you
Have students repeat
Have some students read them aloud.
Activity: Form a Line Game (5 mins)
Put up the phonics cards on the board.
Write the respective words on separate pieces of paper.
Hand out the pieces of paper to the students.
Ask the students to form a line at the front of the board in the same order as the phonics card.
Repeat the procedure with another group of students.
Give feedback
5. Song (Track 18) (5 mins) 
Put the pen, panda and parrot phonics cards up on the board.
Point to the pen and say: “Can I have a pen, please?” The students repeat.
Follow the same procedure and present the rest of the song.
Play the CD. The students listen and sing along.
Play the CD again. The students sing and do corresponding actions.
Activity: Guess Game (5 mins)
Divide the class into two teams A and B. 
Ask a student to come to the board.
Whisper one word (e.g: pen) to him/her.
Without speaking, the student draws a picture of the word on the board.
The first team to guess the word wins a point.
Repeat the activity with as many students as you think is necessary.
WEEK 6 – GRADE 2 – LETTER P (35 minutes) PERIOD 11 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Read and say the three Pp words correctly 
Recognize and say a new Pp word correctly
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 3 - Lesson 3
Letter Pp
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
pen, panda, parrot, pony
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.13
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up (5 mins)
Greet students
Hold up the pen, panda and parrot phonics cards, one at a time and say a word.
Ask individual students to say Yes or No.
E.g: 1/ Teacher: (holding up the pen phonics card) pen
 A student: Yes!
 2/ Teacher: (holding up the parrot phonics card) panda
 A student: No!
Play the song (Track 18) from the previous lesson.
The students listen and sing along.
Presentation & Practice
6. Circle the pictures of the words that begin with the same sound (8 mins)
Put up the parrot, panda and octopus phonics cards on the board.
Point to the phonics cards, read 3 words_”parrot, panda, octopus” slowly and ask the students which one begins with letter Pp.
Circle the parrot and panda phonics cards. 
Ask the students to take out their pencils.
Give the students 2 minutes to circle the pictures that have Pp in them. 
Go around the classroom providing any necessary help.
Activity: Chinese Whispers Game (5 mins)
Divide the class into 2 or 4 teams with the same numbers of students in each team.
The first student of each team runs to the teacher (at the same time); teacher whispers a word/words to them.
The first student whispers the word/words to the student sitting next to or behind him/her and so on.
The last students say the word/words aloud.
7. Listen. Point and repeat. Colour the pictures of the words that start with the p sound. Say the p words. (Track 19) (7 mins)
Show the students the pony phonics card. Point to it and say: /p/ - pony. Ask them to repeat.
Mime riding a pony and say: /p/ - pony. Encourage the students to do the same.
Ask the students to take out their colour pencils/ crayons
Point to the pictures, the students do corresponding actions and say the words.
Give the students 2 minutes to colour in the pictures of the words that begin with the /p/ sound.
Go around the classroom providing any necessary help.
Activity: Craftwork (10 mins) 
Ask the students to take out their notebooks.
Ask them to choose one word the draw the letter and the picture in their notebooks.
Tell them to colour the letter and the picture.
The three first students who finish will show their picture to the class.
OR
Activity: Name It Game (10 mins)
Arrange some chairs, back to back, in the middle of the room.
Choose phonics cards and place them on the chairs.
Play the song (Track 18).
When the music stops, the students pick up a phonics card and, one at a time, tell the name of the item pictured on their phonics card.
The student who gives an incorrect answer is out of the game.
Play the game as many times as you think is necessary.
WEEK 6 – GRADE 2 – LETTER P (35 minutes) PERIOD 12 
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Review the sound of the letter Pp, four Pp words and recognize the corresponding pictures 
Write the letter Pp
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 3 - Lesson 4
Letter Pp
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary Revision
pen, panda, parrot, pony
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Activity book – p.6 & 7
Materials
Phonics cards
Teaching Aids
Colored chalks/ markers 
Warm-up (4 mins)
Greet students
Have students sing the chant in lesson 1 Unit 3 (Track 16), keep the rhythm by clapping their hands or snapping their fingers.
Revision & Practice
Trace and say (Page 6 – Activity Book) (9 mins)
Activity: Revision of letter P, its sound (4 mins)
Speaking & Listening
Write on the board the big P and small p
Point to the letter P and say out loud “This is the letter P /pi:/. The letter P says /p/”
Point to the letter p and say out loud “This is the letter p /pi:/. The letter p says /p/”
Have the class repeat its sound chorally, then individually
Have the students say the sound individually, correct the pronunciation if necessary 
Activity: How to write letter P (5 mins)
Writing & Speaking
Demonstrate how to write the big P by stroke
Draw an example of letter P using dashed lines
Use a different colored chalk to model tracing the letter P 
Have some students practice tracing letter P on the board
Have students trace letter P in the books 
Students say /p/ after each finished letter
Go around to give help if necessary 
Repeat the same procedure with the lower letter p
Trace and match (Page 6 – Activity Book) ) (11 mins)
Activity 1: Revision of words starting with letter Pp, letter Nn, and letter Oo – Activity: Thumbs Up or Down (5 mins)
Speaking & Listening
Ask the students to close their books.
Hold up the phonics cards one at a time.
Ask the students to verify the word the teacher says by putting their thumbs up or down.
E.g. Teacher: (holding up the pen phonics card)
 Parrot. Up or Down?
 Class: (putting their thumbs down)
 Teacher: Good! What it is?
 Class: Pen! 
Activity 2: (6 mins)
Tracing & Matching:
Put the Phonics card (octopus, panda, nose) on the board. 
Copy the box from question 1, 2, 3 in the book to the board.
Demonstrate tracing the line of letter N, n, letter O, o and letter P, p using dashed lines.
Ask the students which one goes with letter N.
Match letter N with the correct phonic card (nose) and small letter n.
Do the same with letter O and letter P.
Have the students do the same procedure in their book.
Go around and give help as needed. 
Answer keys: N_nose, O_octopus, P_panda
Colour the right partner letters (Page 7 – Activity Book) Activity: Sit and Stand Game (6 mins)
Ask the students to take out their colour pencils/ crayons.
Name some colours.
Use the structure: “I like” and ask the students hold up the colour pencils/ crayons they like.
Hold up one card with the upper letter P and one card with the lower letter p.
The students will stand if the upper letter goes with the different lower letter. They will stay sitting if the upper letter goes with the same lower letter.
Have the students colour the right partner letters.
Do the same procedure for the other cards.
Give the students 2 minutes to colour them.
Go around the classroom providing any necessary help.
Answer keys: Pp, Oo, Nn
Write the letter Pp. Then circle the pictures of the words that start with the p sound (page 7 – Activity Book) (5 mins)
Writing & Reading 
Copy the box from the book to the board
Tell the students that you are going to write the letter Pp into the box
Demonstrate the writing 
Put phonics cards of a nut and a pen on the board.
Ask the students which one goes with letter Pp and then circle the correct picture 
Ask the students to write the letter Pp in the box in their book and circle the correct picture that corresponds to the letter. 
Answer keys: pen, pony, parrot, panda